Starfield: How To Join All Factions

The Hunter is one of the most enigmatic characters in that shouldn’t be ignored. With so much to explore and so many people to meet, it is easy to overlook some characters, especially those that can only be found when straying from the beaten path. However, 's The Hunter stands out among the rest of the game'sNPCs, and with good reason, as people will learn as they progress through the game.

Traits in are part of your character creation that gives you a special positive and negative origin that affects how you start the game, but these backgrounds are something you can choose to lose. If, for whatever reason, you dislike the trait you picked, each can be nullified in different ways as your journey unfolds. Those playing on PC even have the option to use console commands to give themselves a new trait entirely.

, like many of Bethesda's past RPGs is a game full of choices and consequences. Most often, major choices in any given quest line will come through dialogue or optional objectives clearly marked in the quest log. However, there's one choice players don't even know they're passively making, which can have devastating consequences later on in the game's main campaign.

gives you tons of options to build your ship to resemble iconic sci-fi vessels, including the ominous space station of the parasitic robots from known as The Borg Cube. The infamous location where countless members of the United Federation of Planets were assimilated, this machine can be tricky to recreate. Even the simple design of the Cube requires plenty of effort.

If you've been a fan of Bethesda games for a while, you'll more than likely be well aware of the Invisible Dawnstar Chest glitch from Skyrim. Over a decade ago, one lucky Skyrim player found a seemingly invisible chest packed to the brim with powerful and expensive items, tucked away inside of a random cliff in Dawnstar. This was actually a chest filled with a nearby merchant's inventory, but was accidentally placed too close to the surface, letting fans pilfer the contents of an entire shop without punishment.

Could you really bring an extra companion with you in Starfield? Yes, but there's a catch.

Starfield has plenty of ways to make money. You can complete quests and be rewarded for your efforts. You can trade valuable items you find, or rare minerals that you mine. You can even sneak into places and, when nobody is looking, steal an expensive ornament.

Players have stumbled across yet another strange bug in Starfield, except this time, it can actually help you progress. 

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Arm yourself with the best guns in the galaxy. Our favorite weapons of Starfield are in multiple rarity tiers — and many of them can be found very early in the game — but they’re all uniquely powerful. And best of all, you can always acquire them by completing specific missions. The list below consists of unique named weapons. We won’t discuss totally random weapons, or weapons you can craft and enhance through Weapon Mods. Weapon Mods are the best way to create unstoppable guns. But you’ll have to earn Skills and collect resources to get the modded gun of your dreams. If you want an unstoppable weapon at almost any phase of the game, here’s a list of deadly tools of destruction you’ll always unlock by following the steps.

Resident space cowboys the Freestar Collective offer up all the western tropes you can shake a stick at, and for those looking to live the galactic gunslinger life, we have Starfield’s Freestar Collective explained with how to join, all the quests listed and rewards you’ll get.

Matt Mercer, Critical Role’s many-talented Dungeon Master, has a starring role in Starfield, the latest role-playing game from Bethesda Softworks. The announcement was made Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.